# Bernardo

Bernardo is a given name, possibly derived from the Germanic Bernhard. It may refer to:

## People

* Bernardo the Japanese (died 1557), early Japanese Christian convert and disciple of Saint Francis Xavier
* Bernardo Accolti (1465–1536), Italian poet
* Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2-1780), Venetian urban landscape painter and printmaker in etching
* Bernardo Bernardo (1941–2018), Filipino veteran stage actor, comedian, and film director
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1941–2018), Italian film director and screenwriter
* Bernardo Buontalenti (c. 1531 – 1608), Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist
* Bernardo Clesio (1484–1539), Italian cardinal, bishop, prince, diplomat, humanist and botanist
* Bernardo Corradi (born 1976), Italian footballer
* Bernardo Daddi (c. 1280 – 1348), Italian Renaissance painter
* Bernardo Domínguez (born 1979), Spanish footballer known as Bernardo
* Bernardo Dovizi (1470–1520), Italian cardinal and comedy writer
* Bernardo Espinosa (born 1989), Colombian footballer
* Bernardo Frizoni (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
* Bernardo Fernandes da Silva (born 1965), Brazilian footballer
* Bernardo Fernandes da Silva Junior (born 1995), Brazilian footballer and son of the previous Bernardo
* Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786), Spanish military leader and colonial administrator who aided the United States in the American Revolutionary War
* Bernardo Gandulla, Argentine footballer
* Bernardo Guimarães (1825–1884), Brazilian poet and novelist
* Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), Argentine physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
* Bernardo Kuczer, Argentinian composer, music theoretician and architect
* Bernardo Leighton (1909–1995), Chilean politician
* Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli (between 1426 and 1429–1500), Doctor of Law and father of Niccolò Machiavelli
* Bernardo Mattarella (1905–1971), Italian politician
* Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785), cartographer and artist in New Spain
* Bernardo Mota (born 1971), Portuguese tennis player
* Bernardo O'Higgins (1778–1842), Chilean independence leader, one of the founders and ruler of Chile
* Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710), Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player
* Bernardo Peres da Silva (1775–1844), only native governor of Portuguese India
* Bernardo Putairi (died 1889), last native ruler of Mangareva
* Bernardo Provenzano (1933–2016), leader of the Sicilian Mafia
* Bernardo Reyes (1850–1913), Mexican general and state governor
* Bernardo Rezende (born 1959), Brazilian volleyball coach and player
* Bernardo Romeo (born 1977), Argentine footballer
* Bernardo Rossellino (1409–1464), Italian sculptor and architect
* Bernardo Rucellai (1448/49-1514), Italian oligarch, banker, ambassador and man of letters
* Bernardo Samper, Colombian squash player
* Bernardo Saraiva (born 1993), Portuguese tennis player
* Bernardo Segura (born 1970), Mexican race walker
* Bernardo Saracino, American actor
* Bernardo Silva (born 1994), Portuguese footballer
* Bernardo Strozzi (c. 1581 – 1644), Italian painter
* Bernardo Tolomei (1272–1348), Italian saint, theologian and founder of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Blessed Virgin of Monte Oliveto
* Bernardo Trujillo (1920–1971), Colombian-born American marketing executive
* Bernardo Vieira de Souza (born 1990), Brazilian footballer better known as Bernardo
* Bernardo Yorba (1800–1858), American rancher

## Fictional characters

* Bernardo, from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet
* Bernardo, Zorro's deaf-mute servant
* Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks in West Side Story
* Bernardo O'Reilly in The Magnificent Seven
* Bernardo de la Paz in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a Robert Heinlein novel

### Mythical people

* Bernardo del Carpio, a mythical Spanish medieval hero